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In cases where portfolios have notably substantial budgets, appointments of younger, often full, brothers have been necessary, as deputies or vice ministers, ostensibly to share the wealth and the burdens of responsibility, of each fiefdom. He’s since elevated his son, Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, to the kingdom’s monarch-in-waiting. The crown prince is widely believed to be running the day-to-day affairs of the kingdom. After insurgents held Mecca for 36 hours, the Ulama approved military intervention, and Khalid responded swiftly. The National Guard infiltrated the mosque and faced difficulty, but, by December 4, they regained the holy city. Khalid, with the blessing of the Ulama, executed the rebels on January 9, 1980.
Salman bin Abdulaziz al Saud
He sustained his support after the war so as to remove the aftermath of the aggression. He offered generous contributions, including 2 million Saudi riyals to the Egyptian Red Crescent to help victims of Port Said. He succeeded in strengthening his relation with King Faisal II of Iraq after a meeting held in Dammam on 20 September 1956.
Abdullah bin Abdulaziz al Saud
Muhammad ibn Abd al-Wahhab, founder of "Wahhabism," an austere form of Islam, arrives in the central Arabian state of Najd in 1744 preaching a return to "pure" Islam. He seeks protection from the local emir, Muhammad ibn Saud, head of the Al Saud tribal family, and they cut a deal. The Al Saud will endorse al-Wahhab's austere form of Islam and in return, the Al Saud will get political legitimacy and regular tithes from al-Wahhab's followers.
Mohammed bin Nayef al Saud
Under his reign, Saudi Arabia joined the Non-Aligned Movement in 1961. However, Saud's inability to counter the Saudi national debt brought him into a power struggle with his half-brother and crown prince, Faisal, culminating in the forced abdication of Saud and the proclamation of Faisal as king. Saud went into exile and made an unsuccessful attempt, supported by some of his sons, to take back the throne.
Absolute Power
As I walked around the prison, the yogurt began to melt, and my interpreter held it so I could take notes. Al-Qahtani and the interpreter took me to a small garden, where prisoners cultivated peppers under plastic sheeting and raised bees and harvested their honey to sell at the prison shop, in little jars with the Power logo. The prison will clean your clothes for free, they said, but staff and inmates alike could bring clothes here for special services, such as tailoring, for a fee. I could see shirts, freshly laundered and pressed, with prisoner numbers inked into the collars. Each number started with the year of entry on the Islamic calendar.
His name, Abdullatif Al Asheikh, indicates that he is descended from a long line of stern moralists going back to Muhammad ibn Abd al-Wahhab himself. I told him I had seen the Zombieland sequel in his country, and if Woody Harrelson reprised his role in Zombieland 3, I would return to Riyadh so we could go to a theater and watch it together. Upon Abdulaziz's death, his son Saud assumed the throne without incident, but his lavish spending led to a power struggle with his brother, Crown Prince Faisal.
These policies showed restraint when cooperating in Western affairs in the Middle East especially when the U.S. invaded a neighboring country. Due to the nature of their political alliance, however, U.S.-Saudi relations would naturally repair in the following years. Since the U.S. sees the alliance as a necessary evil, due to their reliance on Saudi oil. Post 9/11 the U.S. would make certain demands from Saudi Arabia in their War on Terror, but would return to business as usual with the Saud family.
Political power
The laws also establish the first municipal governments in the country. A group of 107 Wahhabi religious figures sends a 46-page "Memorandum of Advice" to King Fahd criticizing the government for corruption and human rights abuses and for allowing U.S. troops on Saudi soil. The document calls on the government to more strictly follow shari'a, or Islamic law, and end relations with Western governments. King Fahd dismisses seven of the 17 members of the ulama for refusing to denounce the memorandum. With U.S. women soldiers in many parts of the kingdom because of the Gulf War, Saudi women decide to challenge restrictions on their rights, including the right to drive. In November,forty-seven Saudi women meet at the parking lot of a Safeway and drive their cars through the streets of Riyadh.
He had a stroke a decade prior and his health deteriorated until he passed away at King Faisal Specialist Hospital in Riyadh. During his rule, Faisal would lead Saudi Arabia in various wars in the region. Throughout the Yemeni Civil War, Faisal aligned himself with General Nasser of Egypt, the leader of Egypt and a Saudi opponent in battle for influence in the Middle East, to halt all aid by Egypt and Saudi Arabia to Yemen.
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He also promoted the privatization of state owned oil industries to stimulate the Saudi economy instead of reliance on the government’s wealth. King Abdullah differed tremendously from King Fahd in his position on Saudi Arabia’s place in the world. Abdullah entered kingship at a time of turmoil in the Middle East, due to the War on Terror and led the country through some of the most important developments in the Muslim World.
In December 2004 an assault on the U.S. consulate in Jeddah leaves five foreign staff dead. As of February 2005, thousands of Americans have pulled out of the kingdom and British Airways has suspended flights to the country. On the morning of June 25,1996 a large truck bomb explodes at the U.S. military residence in Dhahran called Khobar Towers, killing 19 U.S. servicemen. U.S. law enforcement efforts to investigate the bombing are met with resistance by Saudi officials.
The camera crew was made up of prisoners too, and they were documenting my visit for imprisoned members of jihadist sects. Mohammad al-Arefe, a preacher known for his good looks and conservative views, mysteriously began promoting Vision 2030 after a meeting with MBS in 2016. Previously, he had preached that Mada’in Saleh, a spectacular pre-Islamic archaeological site in northwest Saudi Arabia, was forbidden to Muslim tourists. God had struck down the civilization that once lived there, and the place was forever to remain a reminder of his wrath. The conventional view held that Muslims should follow the Prophet’s warning to stay away from Mada’in Saleh, but if they absolutely must pass through, they should cast their gaze downward and maintain a fearful demeanor toward the Almighty.
Saudi authorities say al-Awda is a terrorist and a member of the Muslim Brotherhood, which is supported by Qatar and intent on overthrowing the monarchy and replacing it with a theocracy. Al-Hathloul and other activists had demanded rights, and the ruler had granted them. Their error was in thinking those rights were theirs to take, rather than coming from the monarch, who deserved credit for having bestowed them. Al-Hathloul was released in February 2021, but her family says she is forbidden from traveling abroad or speaking publicly. I’ve been traveling to Saudi Arabia over the past three years, trying to understand if the crown prince is a killer, a reformer, or both—and if both, whether he can be one without the other.
It is the first time in the nearly seven-month war that Israeli leaders have suggested they are open to discussing an end to the war, Axios said. A Hamas delegation will visit Cairo, the Egyptian capital, on Monday for talks aimed at securing a ceasefire, a Hamas official has told Reuters. A Hamas delegation will arrive in Egypt on Monday to deliver the group’s response to Israel’s new hostage and truce counterproposal, a senior official of the Palestinian militant group told Agence France-Presse (AFP). Hamas has previously insisted on a permanent ceasefire – a condition that Israel has rejected. However, the Axios news website, citing two Israeli officials, reported that Israel’s latest proposal includes a willingness to discuss the “restoration of sustainable calm” in Gaza after hostages are released.
One of Saudi Arabia's most shocking events occurs the morning of November 20, 1979. Several hundred Saudi fundamentalists take over al-Haram, the Great Mosque at Mecca and the holiest site in Islam. The leader of the insurgents is Juhayman al-Utaybi, a direct descendant of the Ikhwan, the Wahhabi warriors who helped the Al Saud family take power in the early 1920s. Partly due to his standing as a pious Muslim, Faisal is able to introduce cautious social reforms such as female education. In 1965, he approves the first television broadcast inside the kingdom -- a recitation of the Quran.
Through this Saud was able to create a loyal military with him at the center and used religion to gain support from the people of the peninsula. Ibn Saud used his leadership and military status to regain the House of Saud’s legitimacy and solidify his place as the true ruler of the peninsula. Prince Talal is known as the Red Prince for his politically liberal views. He led the Free Princes movement in the 1960s, which called for the end of the absolute monarchy in Saudi Arabia and expanded civil rights, reforms that his family shot down.
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